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• Coke or Pepsi?

  04 Nov 2014

  Bert Wheeler

  I was able to attend the Free-Market Forum weekend before last. FMF is a group of Christian professors gathering to learn more about free-market principles and economics. While I do not think it was part of his planned  talk, one of the speakers said that Republicans and Democrats reminded him of Coke and Pepsi – the basic […]

• What Would Brave Voters Do?

  03 Nov 2014

  Tom Mach

  You may think this is piling on, but I am okay with that.  Some things need to be jumped on.  Our national anthem ends with the following line, “O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, o’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?”  I am seeing precious little freedom or […]

• Mid-Term Elections

  03 Nov 2014

  Mark Caleb Smith

  Let’s run through the basics. As of now, the Republicans control the House (233-199) and the Democrats control the Senate (55-45). There is little doubt the GOP will hang onto the House (most people think they will pick up some seats there), but the Senate could go either direction. There are 36 Senate seats being […]

• White Democrats in the South: Then and Now

  04 Sep 2014

  Mark Caleb Smith

  Michelle Nunn is the scion of a political brand. A Democrat running in what is now a deeply Republican state, Nunn is squaring off against David Perdue, a GOP businessman, for an open U.S. Senate seat in Georgia. In a year when control of the Senate is in doubt, this contest, and others throughout the […]

• US Senate Up for Grabs This Fall

  14 Jul 2014

  Mark Caleb Smith

  The U.S. Senate is at the epicenter of what is shaping up to be an interesting political year. If things hold to form, the Republicans stand a reasonable chance at gaining control of the Senate and keeping control of the House. This would effectively clip President Obama’s already fragile political wings. Let’s take a look […]

• Thunderclap on the Right: Cantor Loses Primary

  10 Jun 2014

  Mark Caleb Smith

  That sound you heard is not the Ohio rain that is so often punctuated by a roll of thunder, but existential angst as it works its way through the Republican establishment in Washington, D.C. Eric Cantor, U.S. House Majority Leader (R-VA), lost his party primary today to political novice Dave Brat, an economics professor from […]